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🔷 Saved Rounds 2.10.26
Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.
In that Number
1 million hours
The Eurofighter Typhoon fleet surpassed 1 million hours of cumulative flight time, marking a historic milestone for the multinational defense program.
Zoom in
The U.S. industrial base is optimized for efficiency, not resiliency—the result of a post-Cold War consolidation. It’s brittle in a crisis, but there are ideas to improve it.
Zoom in here for more on building industrial depth for great power competition.
They Said It
“At a moment like this, not sharing technology with allies is madness.”
— Guido Crosetto, Italian Defense Minister, criticizing British reluctance to share sensitive data within the tri-nation Global Combat Air Program (GCAP).
On the Pod
We have the untold origin story about the Fury unmanned fighter jet!
We chat with the people who created it, what led them to sell their company to Anduril, and how that experience led them to create an investment fund called the DoD Accelerator to help other companies with what they went through.
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Saved Rounds
Vantor was awarded a $5.3M NGA contract for AI-based terrain monitoring
Boeing won a $2.8B contract to upgrade South Korea’s F-15K fleet
The US approved arms sales worth $6.6B to Israel and $9B to Saudi Arabia
CesiumAstro secured $470M to build a major satellite manufacturing facility in Texas
DIU posted a solicitation for an automated containerized drone launchers
Raytheon won a DARPA contract to develop ship defense sensing and targeting
Kongsberg & PGZ partnered to supply 18 counter-drone batteries to Poland
Embraer revealed Uzbekistan and the Philippines as KC-390 and Super Tucano customers
Lockheed Martin won a $328.5M contract to supply IRST pods for Taiwan’s F-16s
Palantir reported $1.41B in Q4 revenue, marking a 70% increase year over year
Boeing abandoned its bid to sell F-15EX fighter jets to Indonesia
Indonesia signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Leonardo M-346 fighter aircraft
Auria acquired BCubed to expand its software-defined C3 and space capabilities
Lockheed Martin cleared its F-35 backlog and delivered 191 aircraft in 2025
Morpheus Space closed a $15M Series A+ round for propulsion system production
HavocAI & Tideman partnered to automate the 20-foot Viper USV
Karman Space & Defense acquired Seemann and MSC to expand maritime operations
Galadyne launched with a $4.8M pre-seed round for liquid rocket missiles
Ondas is acquiring UK-based Rotron Aero
Vita Inclinata won a $45.6M Army contract for helicopter hoist stabilization
ST Engineering unveiled its EagleStrike loitering munition
Shield AI & ST Engineering are integrating Hivemind autonomy software
Boeing announced Block 3 MQ-28 upgrades, including weapons bays and longer wings
Qualis, InTrack, & Tektonux merged to form a new defense technology company
Raytheon’s Next Gen Short Range Interceptor completed a successful test
Northrup Grumman’s APG-85 radar fielding faces delays due to the F-35 configuration
HAL dropped out of India's AMCA fighter program
The Army received its first Sentinel A4 radar from Lockheed Martin
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